ABSTRACT
A number of global and regional land-cover datasets, classi‡cation systems, and legends have been developed with the use of satellite remote sensing for large-scale land monitoring. Monitoring initiatives have different interests, objectives, methodologies, and mapping standards, which limit the capacity of compatibility and comparability of land-cover data. A large and growing user community and a variety of applications require consistency and continuity in land observations, which can be achieved by harmonizing the multitude of datasets. In particular, harmonizing can improve
6.1 Toward Harmonized Land-Cover Mapping ...........................................................................65 6.2 UN Land-Cover Classi‡cation System ...................................................................................66
